A-Voynich Transcription - A Glyph-Based Transcription Of The Voynich Manuscript.pdf

A-Voynich Transcription

A glyph-based transcription of the
Voynich Manuscript



Contents


Overview page 1

Some Transcription History page 2

Glyph Construction Theory page 5

A-Voynich Font Equivalents page 8

Sample Transcription Pages page 12
Overview





The A-Voynich Transcription is a product of many
years and testing of many different theories on character
identification. While this is a project I would have liked
to have taken on and mastered many years ago, it has
been only recently that quality images of the Voynich
script have been released by Beinecke Rare Book Library
at Yale. When these images pared against the
black and white copyflo, it es evident that much
information has been kept from the hands of Voynich
enthusiasts over the years. The new images confirm that
many ‘strokes’ are routinely connected, and if written in
a fluid and connected fashion must most probably be
individual glyphs. While my transcriptions have always
maintained that certain prise individual
glyphs, my own methods are in need of revision, and in
the process perhaps this effort will bring others to the
realization that stroke-based transcriptions are very
unlikely to lead to a solution of the Voynich Manuscript.
Any reasonable transcription methodology should
be based on a fairly sound glyph construction theory and
incorporate enough information about the characters to
make alteration of the transcription a simple matter,
without the need to retranscribe large sections of the text.
It is with this in mind that this transcription is
undertaken, and it is my hope that this effort proves to be
beneficial to all Voynich enthusiasts.
Some Transcription History



“plex and interesting the drawings are, the script in
which the bulk of the manuscript is written is undoubtedly the most
intriguing part of the elegant enigma. It has a deceptively flowing,
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